Your guide to short listing and evaluating new business software.

A BASDA (Business Application Software Developers' Association) publication.

The booklet is designed for organisations involved in the selection of a business software system and an appropriate supplier. It provides a fast-track approach to selecting a business and accounting system, in a reliable and proven manner.

A Working Party was set up between BASDA, external consultancies and user organisations to develop both a fast-track and a sound method of selection. The techniques outlined in this booklet are proven and well established.

The BASDA document advocates an ‘RFI approach’, which recommends to buyer organisations that, after collecting all the detailed requirements from the various departments within the organisation, they distill them into a shortened 'summary of requirements'.

This summary is then used as the basis of an RFI (Request For Information), and is sent to a selection of suppliers, to evaluate whether their software fits the broad requirements. Once the responses have been received and evaluated, then a short-list can be established and a more detailed investigation into the software and service requirements can be undertaken.

After the detailed review, a preferred supplier is identified and a detailed evaluation is undertaken of the product, including testing the product on the customer's premises.

The booklet includes checklists, which can be used to short-list potential new accounting and business software systems.

Version One has sponsored this BASDA publication, and it is available free of charge.

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